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Cliches You Love

Started by fonkaygarry, November 03, 2006, 01:36:41 AM

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mattormeg

#15
November 03, 2006, 10:32:22 AM
The Great Magic That Comes with a Terrible Price.

The mysterious old tower in the woods, long thought abandoned but in fact possessed by a terrible Power.

Jillions of pagan gods and goddesses from hundreds of cultures and fictional settings, all mixed up into a cult-licious mess.

Brotherhoods of assassins who drag the players into their baroque machinations.

Bawdy, ignorant but essentially decent barbarian kings and their manipulative, sophisticated femme-fatale queens (a la Queen Mebde from "Tain bo Culaigne.")

Ravaging Pict warbands as both Noble Savages AND sub-human menaces.

mattormeg

#16
November 03, 2006, 10:33:08 AM
Quote from: jrientsEmbarrassed?  Ha!  I'm utterly shameless.  I reach out and grab old cliches and make them my own.  I celebrate them at every opportunity.  I start adventures in bars.  I send players out to rescue princesses.  Gods appear in dreams and send my PCs on urgent missions.  If it's been in a cheesy novel or B movie I won't hesitate to use it.


Yes indeed!

Sosthenes

#17
November 03, 2006, 10:36:16 AM
I completely forgot the
Awfully Cute Progeny Of The Horrid Monster You Just Obliterated
 

Mcrow

#18
November 03, 2006, 10:37:00 AM
Quote from: RPGObjects_chuckDungeons with room after room of large carnivorous monsters and eeeeeeeeeevil humans with no sense of "ecology" or anything lame like that.

Chuck

This one is the top on my list. I like an old school Dungeon Crawl where none of the monsters seem to have any particlar reason for being there and in fact your not sure how the could live there.

Bagpuss

#19
November 03, 2006, 10:41:53 AM
Quote from: mattormegThe Great Magic That Comes with a Terrible Price.

Yeah that XP costs for Wish is pain isn't it.
 

mattormeg

#20
November 03, 2006, 11:06:51 AM
Quote from: SosthenesI completely forgot the
Awfully Cute Progeny Of The Horrid Monster You Just Obliterated

How about the Awfully Cute Progeny of The Horny Monster You Just Impregnated?:D

Sosthenes

#21
November 03, 2006, 11:08:37 AM
Quote from: mattormegHow about the Awfully Cute Progeny of The Horny Monster You Just Impregnated?:D

Sir, I don't run a Wraethtu campaign at the moment.
 
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